bill maher’s great article on flu vaccination.
i agree with this pretty much all the way.

plus, hes funny— “

But no, I don’t think the A.M.A. and Big Pharma and Aetna and Dr. Frist’s hospital chain all meet in a board room and cackle about keeping us sick. They meet on the golf course. (Just kidding.)

“

i eat this whenever i work in midtown east:
#11 VEGETARIAN SPECIAL
$6.99
Romaine lettuce, tomato, carrot, cucumber, avocado, alfalfa sprout, shredded red cabbage and sweet pepper on 7-grain whole wheat with honey dijon mustard

it is from an amazing shop called lenny’s.

it was just like this for me with silk city’s black russian sandwich w the avocados (which doesnt exist anymore bc of new owners)– i never make this sandwich for myself. i just love it and buy it weekly or biweekly.

maybe you will like it for yourself, and make it for you. and, for me? may, be,

hi im back! back to working a million hours a week it feels like, already, but, eh, thats ok:)
flordia was nice. somewhat devoid of culture, but, good to get away.

we drove from orlando to miami.
miami was weird and showy, but, also had a few cool things like the art deco and design districts.
and here is the answer to the burning question, are there hipsters in miami? ha. this question is phrased soooo weirdly on that webpage. i think the person asking is either very foreign or very much a db.

i always try to find brooklyn wherever i go. not full on complete hispter havens, but, something i feel comfortable w at least. miami was all scene and weirdness to me, fast cars and girls-gone-clubbing.

alex i saw your friends last night for a quick drink!! nori and tess:)
what else is the good news of the moment…? um, i work two jobs today, but its my last day in my office. thats nice news. i finish moving in this weekend. i am going to maybe do some winter shopping finally bc ive been too busy to… (new glasses!!!). i hope to pick up a good new book to read. and, i try to figure my life out as always. the end, for now<3

.. i have been on a huge soup kick, suzy – i wish you were here with me to enjoy.  i make nice big batches that last me a few days of goodness.  and if i get sick of it a some days in, i toss the rest in the freezer.  last night i had the best curried lentil that i froze ages ago.  i’m only now learning the brilliance of freezing (the right things.)   i also had a few delicious days of cream of potato and celery.  and then an amazing smoked tomato with all the roma tomatoes from my garden.  they lacked flavor raw, so a yummy tomato soup was great.  i made homemade croutons by tearing up a whole wheat loaf and tossing it in oil and brown mustard and pepper.  and i think i mentioned the cheddar broccoli soup.  tonight, i am cooking up a split pea, a slow slow cook.  and yes, with bacon!  it such comforting warm loveliness for me these cool cool days in oregon.

i want to see pirate radio only because you said to.   i’ll have to read up on it.  

here are some simple shots of fall from me…

so… there is a sirrus radio in the car and i LOVEEEE it. new music, old music, anything i want all the time.
and i set all the presets. XMU, alt nation (which is better than it sounds; i know, it sounds so 90s), and underground garage. then 3 npr type stations, with good ole bbc mixed in.

well, i have this very bad (good?) (def annoying for people in the car!) habit of switching between the three music stations. even if a song i pretty much love is on one of the stations, i have this need to hear whats on the other three before i commit.

i think that says a lot about my life.
other people are like ‘you like this song. who cares what else is on?’
and… why do i care?
but, i do.

related: just saw ‘the men who stare at goats’ (good, but more interesting to just know about that stuff broadly to now research it). and then we snuck into ‘pirate radio’ like teenagers after that. i LOVED that movie. omg. i love the music from that era, and there are so many good actors in it. and a cute cute cute young young boy who reminds me a lot of jesse vile (funny!). i want someone else out of our group of friends to see this and confirm or dispute it with me.

and alex, i bought you a great tee shirt.
oxooxoxoxoox world. i loves you.

k. so i know i am still very much a newbie here.  (actually i just realized it is just almost about a year ago that i made the actual decision to come to portland.  it didn’t happen until last march, but as november/08 came, the world persuaded me to depart la for the northwest.)   in any event, the rain stereotype lived on, as i have now told many friends around the world about my moving to portland – rain is always the first question.  from my immediate experience, it was pretty much a myth.  and in the summer, it is entirely true that there is no rain.  but yes, winter was looming and most of the long-time locals warned me it could get bad – more gray than anything.  which sounds just like london.  either way, i don’t care much… i look forward to a dramatic season.  (after all those years in CA, no less).  the funny thing though is the vague weather reports from the internet/local news etc.   as november crept in, the weather forecasts began to more and more look like this:

and now that i am truly in it, i realize how to interpret these strange and depressing looking reports.  (i’ve been told over and over not to even look at them, but still, i can not yet come to ignore em).  a day with a rainy icon simply means that there is a chance (maybe 60%) that it will rain at some point, in some area of the city, some certain amount.   so basically, though there is  60% of precipitation, it is even more likely that the cloud may pass over your neighborhood.  or you might be lost in a book store (or god forbid, have a job) and entirely miss the so called rain.  i guess thats why they say shower.  

sitting for the evening in a cafe up the street, after taking some photographs of the fall look around town and dropping yet another resume of at a fabulous health food store, the rain did come. and hard.  a serious downpour.  the kind that made enough noise that everyone in here stopped what they were doing to pay attention to it for a few minutes.  the quick darkness passing over, the water like buckets hitting sidewalks and car tops.  the window view blurs into a painting on the wall.    and quickly, it ends.  it’s like the cloud shakes itself of and moves along out to sea.  just splashing our city clean and fresh.

S!-  what the hell?  What’s in FL and when/why/HUH?  

Like I should talk… just flew in from a weekend in SF/Oakland this evening.  Now… I PROMISE I have no trip on my agenda.    The weekend was fun filled with family, friends, drinks, sunrises, thai food, indian food, fried chicken, and more bacon that I would like to admit. 

Exciting job interview tomorrow – please think good things peoples.

OK, off to the co-op because all weekend (which has included a wee unhealthy food choices) has me craving something organic and warm and delicious, so I’m going to make up a batch of cream of brocolli and cheddar soup for dinner, and then bed.

 http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/broccoli-cheddar-soup-recipe.html

i havent posted since then. and, now i am off to FL for awhile.
i had a very very long work week last week, and have been avoiding doing anything very real since.
i will write a real post when i return. or maybe from the beach.

i want to camp on the beach and also stay at a hostel. that may be impossible, but we will see : )

im at WORK right NOW
but we just had a fun event with an open bar.
makes it worth it.
sortaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

btw, walking down the street near my office today, and a crazy lady kept saying ‘TIME Time TIME is of the ESSENCE. TIMEEEE TIMEEE TIMEEE’ like a Reverend or something. i liked it. enough. it applied both to my day and my life.